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Horizon 2020 grant links nanotechnology with art
3 Mar 2015
Dr Katrien Keune of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has received a European H2020 grant within the NANORESTART programme (NANOmaterials for the RESToration works of ART).
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PhD in the spotlight: Sander Oldenhof
3 Mar 2015
Sander Oldenhof (1985) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 10 March. As part of his doctoral research at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), Oldenhof ...
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Update: UvA Maagdenhuis
2 Mar 2015
For the moment, there is no intention to evacuate the Maagdenhuis.
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Making Analytically Incompatible Approaches Compatible
2 Mar 2015
An innovative research project in the analytical sciences has received substantial funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO. The MAnIAC project, led by Prof. Peter Schoenmakers of the Van ...
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Weekly meeting with Executive Board
27 Feb 2015
On Monday, 2 March, the first of a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The first meeting will be held in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to 14:30.
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Amsterdam Data Science receives AAA funding
27 Feb 2015
Amsterdam Data Science has received an investment from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) following a decision by the Executive Boards of VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
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Cees de Laat heads KLM-COMMIT/ research into cyber attacks
27 Feb 2015
Prof. Cees de Laat, researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Informatics Institute, will head research into how cyber attacks can be automatically deterred by internet service provider consortiums and business ...
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Livestream agenda-setting meeting at REC
26 Feb 2015
Watch the livestream of the agenda-setting meeting at Roeterseiland.
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Update: agenda-setting meeting 26 February
26 Feb 2015
Because of increased interest, today’s agenda-setting meeting will be moved from CREA to REC C 1.04 to enable more people to attend. The meeting is meant table subjects for discussion with the Executive Board.
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Student member in UvA Executive Board
26 Feb 2015
The UvA’s Supervisory Board has unanimously approved a proposal to appoint a student member to the Executive Board and faculty management. The deans also unanimously support the proposal.
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Update: Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation
26 Feb 2015
Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building. The door was forced open and a member of security assaulted. The Executive Board has laid formal charges.
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Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation
26 Feb 2015
Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building.
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Statement Executive Board on Bungehuis eviction
24 Feb 2015
Issued by Louise J. Gunning-Schepers, president of the Executive Board
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Executive Board regrets failed talks with Bungehuis protestors
24 Feb 2015
Talks between Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, the UvA’s Executive Board and the Bungehuis protestors have failed.
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Horizon 2020 Grant for Dariu Gavrila
23 Feb 2015
Prof. Dariu Gavrila of the Informatics Institute received a H2020 grant for the PROSPECT project. PROSPECT (PROactive Safety for PEdestrians and CyclisTs) addresses vulnerable road user safety in the context of ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: Bacterial Cell Biology
19 Feb 2015
VU University’s Dr Joen Luirink studies processes in bacterial cell envelopes. One of his projects focuses on a protein complex that plays a crucial role in the division of bacteria. Cell division is also the focus ...
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The 10th Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award: take part!
19 Feb 2015
€ 10,000 for most innovative and useful idea with commercial or societal impact
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Giulia De Luca (SILS) wins Upcoming Scientist Award at Innovation for Health 2015
17 Feb 2015
Giulia De Luca, PhD candidate with the Molecular Cytology group at the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS), won the Upcoming Scientist Award at the Innovation for Health conference held in Amsterdam in ...
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Three Faculty of Science researcher amongst Vici recipients
17 Feb 2015
Biologist Frank Takken (Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences) and physicists Florian Schreck (Institute of Physics, IoP) Femius Koenderink (IoP and FOM-institute AMOLF), all affiliated with the Faculty of Science ...
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UvA to take part in Holland Scholarship
16 Feb 2015
The Holland Scholarship, a newly created Dutch scholarship programme, was officially launched on Monday, 16 February. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will be one of the participating institutions in the programme, ...
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Getting 2 for 1: 'bonus' electrons in germanium nanocrystals can lead to better solar cells
13 Feb 2015
Researchers of the UvA's Institute of Physics, Foundation FOM, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals produce ...
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Vici grant awarded to five UvA researchers
13 Feb 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a prestigious Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to five researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
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Horizon 2020 Grant for Leo Dorst
12 Feb 2015
Dr Leo Dorst of the Informatcs Institute (research section: Intelligent Autonomous Systems) has obtained a H2020 grant for the GRAVITATE project: Ancient BRoken Artifacts CAn DigitAlly Be ReAssembled (ABRACADABRA). ...
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Kordes Award for 2013 UvA Annual Report
11 Feb 2015
The University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) 2013 Annual Report has been awarded the 2014 Deloitte Kordes Award in the category education. The Kordes Award, which is named after the former president of the Court of Audit, was ...
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Joost Frenken appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at VU and the UvA
10 Feb 2015
Prof. Joost Frenken (director of the ARCNL) has been appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at both VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
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First proof of dark matter in innermost region of Milky Way
9 Feb 2015
An international team of researchers, which includes UvA physicist Gianfranco Bertone, has obtained the first observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, where our own ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: SOLARDAM
9 Feb 2015
The year started auspiciously for SOLARDAM: two years after its founding, the consortium received seed capital for eight postdocs. The initiators are anxious for them to start as soon as they can. 'We're all ...
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PhD-candidate University of Amsterdam ‘gives face to science’
6 Feb 2015
Physicist Hugo Doeleman, PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Physics (IoP) and FOM-institute AMOLF is one of the new young researchers featured on the website Faces of Science. In his first ...
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Take-off grant for alternative bioplastics
4 Feb 2015
Professor Gadi Rothenberg of the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry was awarded a first-phase valorisation grant by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) to try and bring to market the innovation of ...
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Horizon 2020 Grants for Faculty of Science researchers
3 Feb 2015
Horizon 2020, the EU programme for research and innovation, has granted three Faculty of Science projects a total of more than EUR 1.5 million. These projects are concerned with large-scale database applications ...
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Computer Science students successfully conduct web archeology
3 Feb 2015
A student team from the Master’s joint UvA-VU programme Computer Science succeeded in unlocking a unique piece of web archeology. For the course History of Digital Cultures they sank their teeth into Amsterdam’s ...
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Anna’s Garden and Thicket nominated for best green initiative North Holland
3 Feb 2015
Anna’s Garden and Thicket, the nature- and horticultural area to be developed on Amsterdam Science Park, is nominated for the ‘Golden Bittern’: a prize for the best green initiative in the North Holland province. The ...
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PhD in the spotlight: Jamie McLaren
3 Feb 2015
Canadian national Jamie McLaren will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 4 February. McLaren studied bird migration as a part of his doctoral research at the Institute for ...
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In search of the origins of musicality
2 Feb 2015
Why do we have music? And what enables us to perceive, appreciate and make music? The search for a possible answer to these and other questions forms the backdrop to a soon-to-be released theme issue of Philosophical ...
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Successful seminar on Solar Fuel Future
29 Jan 2015
"Our catalysts can beat nature" stated professor Licheng Sun from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology KTH. Sun was invited by the John van Geuns foundation for a mini symposium on Solar Fuel Future. It was ...
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Molecules shed light on the secrets of friction
29 Jan 2015
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have developed a new microscopy method that enables the visualization of nanoscale contacts between two ...
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Amirhossein Habibian elected best Iranian engineering student in Europe
29 Jan 2015
Amirhossein Habibian, PhD student at the Informatics Institute, is elected as the best Iranian engineering student in Europe. The prize is awarded yearly by the Iranian government to reward academic excellence among ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling
27 Jan 2015
In 2007, chemists Evert Jan Baerends of VU University Amsterdam and Daan Frenkel of the University of Amsterdam decided it made sense for the two universities to collaborate more closely in the field of molecular ...
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Bednets and malaria vaccines not always good combination in fight against malaria
27 Jan 2015
The use of malaria vaccines combined with a bednet can be counter-productive in some cases and can even exacerbate the problem. This follows research carried out by an international team led by Yael Artzy-Randrup ...
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Jan de Boer new member of FOM's Executive Board
25 Jan 2015
As per 1 January 2015 IoP professor Jan de Boer has taken up a seat as member of the Executive Board of the FOM Foundation. He was already member of the Board of Directors as of 1 May 2014. He succeeds professor ...
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Three exceptional objects discovered in nearby galaxy
23 Jan 2015
An international team of scientists, including Dr Jacco Vink of the University of Amsterdam, has discovered three exceptional objects in one of the neighbouring galaxies of our Milky Way. They found a superbubble, a ...
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Geke van Velzen appointed secretary general UvA
22 Jan 2015
Geke van Velzen, secretary general of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA), has been appointed secretary general of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Van Velzen will combine both positions, ...
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Kees Jalink, professor by special appointment of High-Resolution Microscopy
22 Jan 2015
Dr K. Jalink (1957) has been named professor by special appointment of High-Resolution Microscopy at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was established on behalf of the Society for the ...
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Peter Schall, professor of Soft Condensed Matter Physics
22 Jan 2015
Dr P. Schall (1971) has been appointed professor of Soft Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.
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Amsterdam Water Science consortium receives AAA funding
20 Jan 2015
The Amsterdam Water Science consortium has received start-up capital from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA). These funds will give VU University Amsterdam (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences) and the University ...
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Professor Frank Linde leads consortium on astroparticle physics
20 Jan 2015
The General Assembly of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) appointed Professor Frank Linde (Nikhef/UvA-IoP) as its new chair on 9 January. APPEC is a consortium of 14 European research ...
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PhD in the spotlight: Peter Demaeght
20 Jan 2015
Peter Demaeght (1984) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 23 January. During his doctoral research at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), he studied ...
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Game Studies students participate in project to decrease social isolation among seniors
20 Jan 2015
Students of the interdisciplinary Game Studies Master's programme of the University of Amsterdam demonstrate their prototypes of applied games for reducing social isolation among the elderly. They demonstrate these ...
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NETWORKS launches new website
20 Jan 2015
A year after being awarded a grant in the Gravitation (Zwaartekracht) programme, NETWORKS proudly presents its new website.
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NWO Creative Industries Strategic Research grant for Maarten de Rijke
19 Jan 2015
Professor Maarten de Rijke has obtained à € 721,000.- grant for a Strategic Research proposal within the Creative Industries programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). De Rijke leads the ...
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